A Conversation with Poet & Performer Phyllis Capello

Phyllis Capello is the author of Packs Small Plays Big, a collection of poems published in 2018. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellow and a winner of an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Her work appears in The Dream Book, From the Margin, The Milk of Almonds, The Voices We Carry, Embroidered Stories and other anthologies. She works as a musician/clown, entertaining children, families, & older adults in hospitals with Healthy Humor Inc. Phyllis also teaches poetry to students in schools and libraries all over NYC with Community-Word Project.